French free software groups are suing the government for signing a deal with Microsoft. They accuse Microsoft of dumping.

The main wrong in the Microsoft deal is not an issue of competition, but that it is trying to impose dependence on user-subjugating software on the country.

In trying to cope with climate mayhem, we must admit that we can't save everything. As global heating advances and causes additional mayhem, we will have to choose what to protect.

The only way we can save everything — at least, everything that will only become threatened at later stages of heating — is to keep the fossil fuels in the ground. This is why spending money on mitigation instead of emissions reduction is total folly.

Seven Syrian towns are besieged and lack food and medicine.

Sanders And Clinton Offer Different Solutions For Nevada's Sabotaged Solar Industry.

Strange that governments urge women not to get pregnant and do not urge men not to get women pregnant.

I think it is ridiculous to demand that either men or women go without sex for years, when a better solution is available.

There is no solid proof that Zika causes microencephaly, but evidence is accumulating. There's enough evidence to base practical decisions on the likelihood. Life decisions cannot always wait for scientific certainty, which can take many years to achieve.

It is plausible for an insecticide to cause birth defects, but implausible that the insecticide alone could explain the big increase in microencephaly between 2014 and 2015 in Brazil.

Perhaps the microencephaly results from the combination of Zika and a pesticide. Or maybe this idea can be ruled out, if some of the cases occurred in cities and the pesticide is used only on farms.